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major

1. Business a large or important company

2. Music a major key, chord, mode, or scale

3. US, Canadian, Austral, and NZ

a. the principal field of study of a student at a university, etc.

b. a student who is studying a particular subject as his principal field

4. Law a person who has reached the age of legal majority

5. Logic a major term or premise

6. Music

a. (of a scale or mode) having notes separated by the interval of a whole tone, except for the third and fourth degrees, and seventh and eighth degrees, which are separated by a semitone

b. relating to or employing notes from the major scale

c. denoting a specified key or scale as being major

d. denoting a chord or triad having a major third above the root

e. (in jazz) denoting a major chord with a major seventh added above the root

7. Logic constituting the major term or major premise of a syllogism

8. Chiefly US, Canadian, Austral, and NZ of or relating to a student's principal field of study at a university, etc.

9. Brit the elder: used after a schoolboy's surname if he has one or more younger brothers in the same school

10. of full legal age

11. Bell-ringing of, relating to, or denoting a method rung on eight bells

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Major

John. born 1943, British Conservative politician: Chancellor of the Exchequer (1989--90); prime minister (1990--97)